The possibilities of the premise are ample and geared to take Bella through the pages of fifth-grade diaries, retired Rolodexes, old CompuServe accounts — you name it.
When actress and comedian Dawn Luebbe rediscovered her 4th- and 5th-grade diaries, she knew they were too good not to share with the Internet.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Powell's 1980s coming-of-age story "Eleanor & Park" and Rachel Renee Russell's middle-grade "Dork Diaries" series remain in development.
In fifth grade, in a diary in which I mostly wrote, It is so boring here, or simply, Bored, only one entry stands out: I just heard on the radio that Paul got married.
Daphne's takes on the highs and lows of her first day of fourth grade are presented diary-style along with annotated doodles on everything from soccer moms to how she is able to tell her twin brothers apart (snot is involved).
The diary graded heartburn objectively on a 5 point Likert-scale for each day as used in the EXPO study [ 17].
The patient kept a daily symptom diary, grading severity 0 (no symptoms), 1 (a very slight problem), 2 (a slight problem), 3 (a moderately bad problem), 4 (a bad problem), 5 (a very bad problem), or 6 (as bad as it could be).
Ms. Rosenstrach, an inveterate saver of date books and diaries going back to first grade, says the dinner diary functions as an emotional jog, but it also represents a collection of gold stars — testament to the good work, the sometimes drudge work, she has done, in regularly feeding her family and trying to feed them well.
These 'solicited symptoms' (local symptoms: pain, swelling; generalized symptoms: drowsiness, fever, irritability, loss of appetite) were graded and recorded on diary cards.
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante.
